Acute medicine & surgery
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Acute medicine & surgery · Jan 2017
ReviewOnline Commentary in Primary Care and Emergency Room Settings.
This paper describes a communication practice called "online commentary" that is in widespread use in primary care in the USA. Online commentary is talk by a clinician that describes what he or she is finding in the course of the physical examination of the patient. ⋯ It then uses data from an emergency room in the western USA to extend the notion of online commentary from primary care to the emergency setting. It proposes that online commentary facilitates effective teamwork by forecasting next actions, allowing members of the emergency team to anticipate probable next steps in the investigation and treatment of patient injuries.